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"Dandyism is a variety of genius."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."
Love

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
Friendship

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
Friendship

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
People

"We can scarcely hate anyone that we know."
Hate

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse."
Death

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
Home

"Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted."
Life

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
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"The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."
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